[Gdal-dev] Nautical Charts

[Norman Vine]

Todd Jellett writes:
>  
> Obviously, MapTech considered encryption to be cheaper than legal action.

Or perhaps they came to the 'realization' that the patent they bought was for
creating files in a specific format not on reading files in that format :-)

also see
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/chartreproj.html

and it is always worth rumaging around at the 'source'
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/
for alternative charts unencumbered by patent see the ENC links

Cheers

Norman